PHIL 410A: Checklist for Peer Review on Part I of Term Paper Assignment

Note that it is not necessary and not even desirable for you to write your papers in the order of the items on this checklist. However you order them, all the following items should be included in your draft. This checklist is not meant to cover everything to include in your draft. It describes the minimum that you should include. I expect you to be creative and go beyond this minimum.

When you are commenting on a draft in Peer Review, one of your roles is to make sure that the paper you are commenting on satisfies these minimum conditions. Please feel free to make additional comments for improving the paper.

Item Student #1 Student #2

1. (a) Has a good introductory paragraph (or two) that gives an overview of the main issue.

(b) Makes good use of examples in the paper.

(c) Explains the issue with at least one citation to something outside this course.

2. Explains the view of each author on the relevant issue

WITH CITATIONS:

(a) Thomson

(b) Mill

(c) Rawls

(d) Feinberg

(e) Scanlon

(f) Dworkin

(g) Schelling

(h) Talbott

Remember that the standard for evaluating an explanation is whether a reasonably intelligent person who had not taken a philosophy course would be able to understand it.